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Graduate of Cleveland Medical College; Graduate of the New York 

Opthalmio School of Medicine and Surgery,- Qraduate of the 

College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York: Late Se* 

p.icr Surgeon to Kings Co. Hospital 5 Member of the 

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INTRODUCTION. 



The important discoveries recently made in medical 
science by Professors Bennett, of Edinburg, and Cham- 
bers, of London, have almost entirely annihilated all pre- 
conceived theories and treatment of disease. And when 
we reflect upon the alarming prevalence and persistence 
of chronic diseases in general, that three-fourths of all fe- 
males, and from one-third to one-half of all males over 
twenty-five years of age, are, more or less, diseased, and 
constantly taking medicine without recovery, it becomes 
necessary to inquire from whence originates this formida- 
ble array of disease and its alarming mortality. Having 
made chronic and surgical diseases a special study and 
practice for over twenty years, part of the time acting 
as Senior Surgeon in one of the largest City Hospitals in 
New York where post-mortem examinations were 
daily made, 1 am satisfied that nearly all chronic diseases 
originate from the stomach and blood-making organs, for 
the following reasons : 

1st. The post-mortem examination of those who die of 
chronic diseases, such as Consumption, Chronic Bron- 
chitis, Dropsy, Asthma, diseases of the Throat, Heart and 
Kidneys, &c, as well as the various forms of Female Dis- 
eases, invariably show lesions of the stomach and blood- 
making organs, and for months and years previous to 
death as constantly exhibit symptoms of indigestion. 

2d. Those who have healthy stomachs, and, conse- 
quently, healthy digestion and blood, are not subject to 
ehronic diseases : whereas, those who for any length of 
time have had the prominent symptoms of indigestion 
invariably have one or more of the various forms ot 
chronic disease. 

3d. All known plans of treatment hitherto employed 
in the treatment of chronic diseases have proved, not on 
ly useless, but injurious. But when the stomach and 
digestion are first made healthy then rich and vigorous 
blood, manufactured by a healthy stomach out of the 
food, circulating into all parts of the body twice every 
minute, rapidly repairs waste and damage, and restore* 
diseased organs and tissues to a condition of health. 



TRUE THEORY OF CHRONIC DISEASE. 

Gastro Enteritis (commonly called Liver Complaint, 
Dyspepsia, &e.,) is, as the name indicates, a chronic in- 
flamation of the lining (mucous) membrane of the first 
and second stomach and upper portion of the intestines, 
and may exist in all grades, from simple congestion and 
irritation to the most obstinate form, viz, chronic inflama- 
tion of more or less of the whole lining membrane of the 
first and second stomach and upper part of the small in- 
testines, (jejunum) with thickening and detachment and 
obliteration of the ducts or glands that secrete liquids for 
digestion . Now, in order to understand its Pathology (dis- 
eased condition), we must first learn its Anatomy and 
Physiolgy. The stomach is the principal organ of diges- 
tion, situated in the epigastie, left and right hypochon- 
driac regions ; is variable in size, usually measuring, when 
moderately full, in its transverse diameter, 12 inehe§; — 
in its vertical, about 4. It is a hollow gland, having four 
coats; — first, mucous; second, cellular; third, muscular; 
fourth, serous. 

The mucous is the lining membrane, as seen with th- 
microscope, is thick, — having a somewhat soft and pulpy 
consistence, and is covered with small, shallow depres- 
sions, which vary from l-100ths to l-200ths of an inch in 
diameter. At the bottom of these depressions, as well as 
between them, are seen the orifices of minute tubes, (gas- 
trio follicles.) located side by side over the entire surface 
of the stomach, leading to innumerable little glands that 
secrete the gastic juices for digestion, from blood vessels 
located in the second or cellular coat. At. the lower ori- 
fice of the stomach, (the Pylorus,) the muscular fibres of 
the third coat became thickened and aggregate into a 
circular ring, (Pyloric valve,) closing the'orifice between 
the first and second stomach, except the passage of food 
at certain intervals. The second stomach (Duodenum) 
is of similar structure to the first, and usually found most 
diseased — having glands (Brunners) of less minute struct 
ure, yet none the less important. Opening into the Du- 
odenum, which is 8 or 10 inches in length, a little below 
the middle, is the duct of the gall bladder, and pancreatic 



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gland. Below the orifice of this duct (for they usually 
empty by one common duct,) absorption of the nutrition 
prepared by the digestion of food takes place, and is con- 
veyed through the thoracic duct into the blood circula- 
tion. We can now se« how easily great changes can take 
place in the manufacture of blood, when these parts are 
so subject to abuse and liable to disease; and it seems a 
matter of much surprise that a disease so common in ev- 
ery community should be so little understood by Physi- 
cians. 

SYMPTOMS. 

Patients afflicted with this disease have more or less 
of the following symptoms, varying with the extent and 
age of the disease, or whether it exists in the first or sec- 
ond stomach : • 

An appetite more or less depraved, generally diminish- 
ed, sometimes ravenous ; an unnatural taste in the mouth, 
usually bitter, often sour or acrid ; Neuralgic pains of va- 
rious kinds and in various places, usually in the side and 
shoulder, often in the breast and back or hips. Are more 
or less nervous; have fluttering or palpitation of the heart, 
and often a tenderness at the pit of the stomach. Owing 
to the putrefaction of food, more or less gas is evolved 
in the stomach, with frequent belching, &c. Dizziness 
of the head or headache; defective memory; cold feet 
and hands ; costive or irregular bowels, and an occasional 
discharge of slime when loose. The skin is rusty, dark 
or dingy; often yellow, spotted or faded, owing to the 
bile cholesterine and various other poisons circulating in 
the blood, and being deposited in the skin, that ought to 
pass off by the bowels, but cannot, because, the stomach 
being diseased, the stimulus of flood cannot call off im- 
purities from the gallbladder, as in health. Now this is 
disease of the stomach, not of the Liver. The Liver is a 
favored organ, weighing 3 J lbs., located in the right side, 
under the short ribs, entirely protected from danger, 
nothing ever going to it, except through the blood — an 
organ that seldom becomes diseased primarily, as proved 
by Post-Mortem examinations. Whereas the stomach, 
the organ we are daily and hourly abusing, is the very 
one that gets diseased. It being made the common re- 
ceptacle of all kinds of food and drinks — not only of digest- 
ible food required, but also of everything difficult ti 



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digestion, such as new bread, pickles pork, onions, pre- 
serves, too highly seasoned and half masticated food, 
scalding hot tea and coffee, &c., &c, at all hours of the 
day and often at night, giving it constant labor and no 
rest whatever. What wonder is it then that of all organs 
the stomach is the one most likely to become diseased. 
We are a nation of gormandizers; "walive to eat, instead 
of eating to live," and this, combined with sedentary 
habits, is certain to produce some form of this disease. 
Is it to be wondered at, then, that three-fourths of the 
females, and from one-third to one-half of all males over 
twenty-five years of age, are troubled with more or less 
of this disease and its consequences? Our ancestors lived 
on plain food, — consequently did not eat too much, — had 
more air and exercise, — were more regular in their hab- 
its, and thus were healthier. 

POST-MORTEM APJPJgJLRANCJES. 

The appearance of the stomach after death varies ac- 
cording to its grade, extent, complication and the length 
of time the patient has suffered. Few die of this disease 
alone, except an occasional case from stagnation of the 
blood at night (nightmare J, or from an ulcer perforating 
the coats of the stomach, producing peritonitis and sud- 
den death. But this impure and vitiated blood, from bad 
digestion, circulating into every part of the body, irri- 
tates and poisons every part, and causing, sooner or la- 
ter, directly or indirectly, Consumption, Bronchitis, Ca- 
tarrh, Asthma, Neuralgia, Deafness, Sore Eyes, Dropsy, 
Palpitation, Scrofula, and all forms of Female Disease. 
For there is scarcely an organic disease known that this 
poisoned condition of the blood does not produce. In 
eases that had died of other diseases, having had, for 
some time, this disease of the stomach w r e found the li- 
ning membrane red, irritable, congested and somewhat 
thickened in places; while, in cases that were well devel- 
oped, of longer existence, having died from one or more 
of its complications, we found more extensive disease, 
and thickening of the lining membrane, ulceration, &c« 
The surface raw, from detachment and discharge of its 
mucous coat, often granulated. The seereting glands, 
that secrete fluids for digestion, and their ducts, more'or 
less obliterated ; the stomach always contracted, and the 
duct of the gall-bladder usually obstructed from exten- 



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sion of disease from the stomach, sometimes almost en- 
tirely preventing the natural discharge of bile and pan- 
creatic fluid into the second stomach, to assist digestion 
and keep the bowels regular. In cases where the, pa- 
tient, during life, was subject to vomiting, we found the 
pyloric orifice contracted from thickening of its tisssues. 
If constipation, the disease was found high up. If diar- 
rhoea, low down, frequently extending to the jejunum. 
Symptoms during life, thus always point the intelligent 
Physician to the exact location|of the disease, just as a 
Hiieeze, hawk, or cough tells whether a disease is in the 
nasal cavities, throat or lungs. 

EXPLANATION OF SYMPTOMS. 

How easy it is now to explain its symptomatology 
rind correct mode of treatment, since we have found out 
by examination after death what it is. From various 
causes, heretofore mentioned, one gets irritability of tl e 
stomach, the causes still acting, the patient taking noth- 
ing for its removal, except, perhaps, a dose of physic, 
which, in the end, invariably makes it worse. The mu- 
cous membrane of the stomach and secreting glands first 
become red, irritable and congested ; a low grade of infla- 
mation is set up, with thickening of the coats of the sto- 
mach and gastric follicles. The various fluids for diges- 
tion, therefore, if secreted, are not assimilated, bile, &c. 
not called off by the stimulus of food in the stomach, 
or from the obstruction of the duct of che gall-bladder. 
Thus the bowels become costive or irregular ; costive, if 
the disease be high up; too loose, if low down ; or change- 
able, if more general. Owing to this retention of bile in 
the gall-bladder, it often becomes enormously distended, 
the liver having no other place to discharge (t\m gall- 
bladder being the reservoir for the bilej, becomes inact- 
ive from engorgement, and cannot, therefore, secrete it 
from the blood. The blood consequently becomes over- 
loaded with bile, cholesterine and pancreatic fluid, and. 
as it circulates in the brain, causes dizziness, loss of mem- 
ory and headache: in the heart, palpitation, &t\. &c. 
More or less bile is deposited in the skin, making it yel- 
low, dingy or rusty. Patients with this disease are usu- 
ally peevish, fretful or despondent; often hysterical or 
hypochondriac. A patient with this condition of the sto- 
mach eat8,but the food will not digest: it therefore putrefies, 



and, as in all eases of- putrefaction, gas is formed — some 
of which, perhaps, he belches up. As well might a man 
expect to be healthy from eating putrid food as by food 
that rots in his stomach from indigestion. The blood is 
the fountain of life ; it circulates into every part of the 
body, carrying nutrition to repair waste and damage, 
and bringing back that which is worn out to be carried 
Off by the various secretions and excretions. For. every 
thought we think wears out so much brain : every 
breaih we breathe so much lung; every action and mo- 
tion wc make a certain amount of tissue. How then is 
it to be repaired, and we kept healthy and vigorous, 
without pure blood? And how are w r e to have pure 
blood without healthy digestion ? And how can healthy 
digestion take place in a diseased stomach? 

PHENOMENA\OF DIGESTION. 

In a condition of health, the stimulus of food in the 
mouth calls off the saliva from the glands of the mouth ; 
after being masticated, it then passes into the first 
stomach, where it excites by its stimulus a Peristaltic 
( twistingj motion, rubbing its surfaces against its con- 
tents, and calling off the gastric juices. It then passes 
through the pylorus into the second stomach (Duoden- 
um), where the same phenomena again occurs, and calf 
ing off the bile from the gall-bladder/ and pancreatic 
juice from the pancreatic gland; and thus digestion is 
accomplished. The nutritious portion of the food is then 
absorbed by the laeteals, and taken into the general cir- 
culation for the repair of waste and damage — the refine 
portion going off by the bowels. 

why DOCTons:iyo]JvoT cuke it, 
is because they do not understand it. For years this 
trouble has been called Liver Complaint. Dyspepsia, &c. 
Doctors having had more trouble in their heads than 
their patients had in their livers. They supposed 
that because they found the boweis costive or irreg- ' 
alar, with little bile in the discharges" and^ : much in 
the blood, that the Liver was diseased and could not act. 
The fact is, however, that owing to this ^disease of the 
stomach, the stimulus of the food does not call off .the 
bile and other secretions, as in health, to accomplish di- 
: alsb ; disease extending from rate lining xoe'm- 
f the stomach to the gall-bladder and oth&r so- 



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cxeting glands, eauses thickening and obstructs its pas- 
sage. I have often seen — on examination after death — 
the gall-bladder, which in health is the size of an ordina- 
ry egg, distended to four or five times its natural size 
from obstruction of its duct, and would rupture from 
pressure before its contents would pass through ; where- 
as in the healthy condition, the weight of the hand alone 
will press its contents into the second stomach. The 
gall-bladder being the reservoir for the bile that the liv- 
er secretes, being thus distended, the liver having no oth- 
er place to discharge, it therefore ceases to act from ob- 
struction, like the cylinder of a threshing machine, when 
the straw is not removed. Therefore, considering this as 
a disease of the liver, the physic and alteratives they 
gave only relieved, never cured. Instead of curing the 
disease that caused the symptoms they treated the symp- 
toms only. A symptom of fever is red cheeks, but no 
sensible Physician would treat a patient for red cheeks. 
Cure the fever and the red cheeks leave ; but treating 
red cheeks never cures a fever. Now, pain in the shoul- 
der, rusty skin, bad taste, palpitation of the heart, irrita- 
ble kidneys and womb, neuralgia and nervousness, cold 
hands and feet/ torpidity of the liver, &c, &c, are as 
much sj^mptonis of a diseased stomach as red cheeks are 
of fever. And a : Pkysician who treats chronic disease of 
1 lie lungs, nerves, kidneys, womb, heart, or any other 
organ, as specific diseases, without first getting the blood 
making organs into a healthy condition, so that pure and 
healthy, instead of vitiated and impoverished, blood will 
circulate in said diseased parts, and repair the damage, 
as nature intended, acts just as unscientifically as he who 
treats red cheeks for fever. And yet a large majoritj^ of 
those for whom I prescribe (from 10 to 20 daily), state 
that for years they have been treated for liver complaint, 
debility, nervousness, palpitation, neuralgia, spinal com- 
plaint, w^omb diseases, &c, &c, &c., (which were only 
symptoms of their diseased stomach and vitiated blood) 
without any relief whatever. Indeed, when we take into 
consideration the immense amount of chronic disease, the 
large amount of medicine taken without recovery — still 
worse, that statistics show that of all children born only 
one in 40 or 50 live to the age of seventy — the question 
might be asked with some propriety, do not doctors kill 



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instead of cure? Any person of common observation 
knows how rapidly the young usually recover of bodily 
ailments, and how slow and uncertain are the recoveries 
of the aged. If a boy breaks his leg or arm and it is set, 
he at once recovers, Not so with the old man. The 
young are rarely sick of chronic diseases — the aged com- 
commonly so. Now, what makes this difference? Sim- 
ply the fact that the young usually have healthy blood 
making organs; their blood is rich, healthy and vigorous, 
and gives vigor and vitality to every part; they conse- 
quently ache with strength, jump and skip about, are 
hard to keep still. Their blood not only repairs their 
waste and makes them strong, but cures them by repair- 
ing their damages. Not so with the aged; their stemachs 
for years have borne abuse; their digestions are bad and 
appetites variable; they are worn out and want rest; 
their blood being too impoverished and defective even to 
repair waste, cannot therefore repair damage if sick, and 
after a time death comes ; sometimes even without any 
serious acute ailment, and die because their defective 
blood cannot even repair waste. 

SOW CAN IT BE CUBJEJDf 

1st. By simply curing the stomach, by a judicious and 
effective medical treatment, and letting the liver take 
care of itself, and it is surprising to see how rapidly pa- 
tients improve. The stomach becoming vigorous and 
capable of digesting food, the bowels regular, the brain 
healthy and vigorous, the mind clear and active, the skin 
assumes its natural color, the heart ceases to palpitate, 
neuralgic pains cease, and the system rapidly emerges 
Into a condition of health. 

2d. Stop taking pukes and purges and harsh medicines, 
Nothing is more common than to hear patients, on admit- 
tance to the Hospital, express themselves thus: "Doctor, 
I have been sick with Liver Complaint, and billious, for 
10, 20, 30, and some even for 40 years, and have had to 
physic all the time, and the more I take, the more I have 
to take." Now, in the name of common sense, if a pa- 
tient has been treated forty years for Liver Complaint, 
taken physic and got worse all the time, would not anj^ 
sensible "Physician change the treatment? The truth is, 
that their livers were healthy, but their stomach and 
bowels diseased— for they universally became healthy 



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and regular when the physic was stopped and they treat 
ed for disease of the stomach and bowels. Others, again, 
would want something to purify their blood. Now, 
there is no such thing as a blood purifier. Physiology 
tells us that the food wo eat to-day is made into blood 

it bin. 21- hours, and worn out within 24 hours more ; 

at our blood is constantly being worn out and renewed, 
and cannot be! purified under those circumstances. Thai 
idea presupposes that we have the same blood* week after 
week and month after month, which is false. The only 
way to have healthy Wood is, td have a healthy stomach 
to make it, and to cat proper food for its manufacture. 

M. ft lop abusing the stomach. Every o: ws that 

a healthy man can perform a hard day's work, whilst a 
sick man cannot, Yet, lew realize that while a healthy 
stomach can digest three hearty meals each day. a i 
eased one cannot, Too hearty food injures a defect fvc 
stomach, just as too hard labor does ail invalid, A healthy 
stomach secretes twelve pounds of gastric juice daily For 
digestion, but when diseased this amount stly de 

creased; its digestive power is therefore greatly dtmin- 
i shed. It takes 4 or 5 hours for a heal thy human si oniae 1 1 
to digest a hearty meal, during which time the stoned; 
U kept in constant motion by its Peristaltic (Iwisting) 
action, re surfaces against the tbod and it-sell'. 

;w this constant, motion irritates still more the lining 
membrane, if diseased, and thus explains why light food 
-ets better on a diseased stomach than heartv food.- be- 
caii less gastric juice to digest, and work 

Sikm ( tf bad, always do better on light food, 

as old bread and milt, or diluted cream, soft boiled e. 

s, 'toast, beef tea, &c.; instead *of irritating, such (bed 
acts as a poultice to the stomach. 

•itli. Take plenty of sunlight air, ai se out (^\' 

i\<jov>'. It is almost as necessary for the sun to shine on 
. human Icings, to make them healthy, as on a fieli 

t out, where one weai 11 tlm>e 

have 1 Lon and 

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more carbonic acid gas (choke damp) is discharged through Hie 
lungs. 

And last, but not least, "Know thyself." Study your own 
system, your own case, the laws of life, health and disease. What 
would be said of an Engineer of a Steamboat who knew nothing 
about machinery, his engine, steam, \he laws of steam, &eJ And 
yet, you expect io he healthy without knowing anything tjfi'lhe 
structure and physiology of your system, laws of life, &c, «fcc., of 
which, I am sorry to say, too many calling themselves Doctors are 
too grossly ignorant, 1 repeat, then, Cure the stomach and blood 
making-organs, and let the symptoms take cure of themselves.— 
Your improvement then will be rapid, and will surprise your 
friends as well as yourselves. Under this new pian of treatment, 
wo have not seen an uncomplicated case that could not be cur-'d 
in from four to eight weeks, and few that were complicated that 
could not be entirely removed, with all their attending symptoms, 
in from three to four montl 

now consumption i:s rMo:BucMu>:- 

Dr. Bennett, Sr. , Professor of Clinical Medicine in tire Cima 
sity of Edinburgh, and Pathologist to the Royal Infirmary,- one ot 
the ablest Physicians of the age, 'who has had more Hospital ex- 
perience and made more Post-Mortcm examinations than any 
other living Physician, says, in his late eminent work, page 684, 
that-— "Observant Physicians have not failed to notice that Con- 
sumption is usually ushered in with a bad and capricious appe- 
tite, a furred or morbidly • clean tongue unusual acidity of the 
stomach and bowels, constipation, alternating with diarrhoea; and 
a variety of symptoms, denominated dyspeptic, referable to a de- 
ranged condition of the stomach and bowels. l v Tow, as the nutii 
tive properties of the blood are entirely dependent upon a proper 
digestion of food, and as this digestion must be interfered with in 
this diseased condition of the stomach and bowels, the continuance 
of such a condition, necessarily induces an impoverished state of 
the blood, and a diseased and imperfect growth of the parts. Also, 
exudations, occurring under these circumstances, do not exhibit 
any tendency to perfect cell formation; thus tubercles are pro- 
duced, which, slowly breaking down, cause .softening and ulcera- 
tion of the Lung tissue, that becomes more and more extensive, 
until death closes the scene. 7. 

Here, then, we have the key-note of ike correct theory and treat- 
ment of Consumption, and recent investigation has proved the 
true origin of Consumption to be faulty digestion, When the cor- 
puscles of healthy blood are examined under "a microscope, they 
are found to be round, fuli and healthy, and in this condition fl 
circulate freely through the minutest capillaries of Lung 
But very different do we find them in cei tain morbid condition 
the Stomach and Lungs; here w ly find tiaem shrive] 

mere or less agglutinated together, 
culating freely through the small bfeb'cl ve i fhua 



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tubercles are formed by the lodgement of shriveled, imperfect or 
agglutinated corpuslces of blood in the minute blood vessels, and 
from exudations from obstructions into the Lung-tissue, which 
slowly soften and discharge, thus producing irritation, cough and 
expectoration, hectic fever, chills, night-sweats, emaciation, &c, 
&c., until death comes to their relief. But, not only do Post 
Mortem examinations prove this theory correct, but treatment 
also. It is the common remark, made by ordinary observation, 
that the more Consumptive patients are treated by the old fash- 
ioned plan of nauseants, expectorants and cough lnediciues, the 
sooner they die. In fact, you can generally date their sinking 
from the hour they take such medicines. The cough is the 
symptom, tubercles and their cause is the disease. Treating a 
symptom never removes a disease or its cause. The tubercles in 
the Lungs act as a foreign substance, causing the cough and other 
various phenomena, and can only be removed by making the di- 
gestion and blood healthy, so that no more tubercles can be de- 
posited, they absorbed and the Lungs healed. Suppose a patient 
has some foreign substance perforating the Lungs — a stick, for 
instance— would any sensible Physician attempt its removal by 
cough medicines? Never! He would first adopt means for its re- 
moval, and, when removed, the cough, which was only a symp- 
tom of the irritation, would stop of itself. Dr. Bennett again 
says, page 682, "That good nourishment and attention to the di- 
gestive organs are the best means of checking both the cough and 
expectoration. Whereas giving nauseating cough mixtures ot Ip- 
ecac, Squills, &c, &c, is the worst treatment that can be em- 
ployed. There is no point which experience has rendered me 
more certain of than that — however these symptoms may be palli- 
ated by cough and anodyne remedies— the Stomach is thereby ren- 
dered intolerant of food, and the curative tendency of the disease 
impeded. On the other hand, nothing is more remarkable than 
the spontaneous cessation of the cough and expectoration on the 
restoration of the digestive functions and improvement in nutri- 
tion." Here, then, is the secret of curing Consumption; for, as 
every medical man knows or ought to know, that the blood — and 
blood only — as it circulates into every part of the system, repairs 
waste and damage, and in the same proportion as this fluid is 
pure and healthy, will all damages be repaired. The same condi- 
tion of things obtain also in Bronchitis, Catarrh, Ozena, Dropsy, 
Anasarca, Palpitation, Diseases of the Heart, Liver, Skin, Kid- 
neys, Lungs, Chronic Sore Eyes, Deafness, Neuralgia, Nervous 
or Sick Headache, Clergyman's Sore Throat, Billious Disorders, 
Chronic Rheumatism, Secret Diseases from vicious habits, Impo- 
tence, Sterility, Diseases of Bone, Chronic Ulcers, Eruptions of 
various kinds, Chorea, and the various Nervous Affections, Par- 
alysis, Fits, Debility, &c, &c. In this list we find, if not always 
the cause, yet the reason of non-recovery, directly or indirectly, 
vitiated blood from faulty digestion. 



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FEMATjE diseases. 

Here, too, we find a long list of troubles; that patients under 
the old Pathology and plan of treatment are eternally sick, always 
doctoring, and never get well. Dysmenorhea (painful menstrua- 
tion), Amenorhea (want of menstrua'tion), Menorrhagia (too much 
menstruation), Leucorrhea (white or yellow discharge), Prolapsus 
(falling of the womb), Anteversion, Retroversion, Anteflexion, 
Retroflexion, Cervixitis, Metritis and Pelvic Cellulitis. A patient 
has painful menstruation every month; this simply means that her 
blood is vitiated from bad digestion, and as it circulates in her 
womb, keeps it irritable, consequently during menstruation, the 
periodical congestion occurring at this time added to this, con- 
stant irritability causes pain. Show me a female who has had in- 
digestion, irregular bowels, cold feet, dizziness of the head, and 
more or less of the symptoms of a diseased Stomach, for years, 
and in every instance she will have one or more of the various 
forms of Female Disease, no one of which, if advanced to any 
extent, was ever permanently cured without first getting the Stom- 
ach and digestion into a healthy condition, so that healthy, instead 
of diseased, blood will circulate in the diseased part, and repair the 
damage as nature intended. We do not mean to be understood 
that every person having a chronic dieease must necessarily have 
a raw Stomach! But we do mean, and nothing to my mind is 
more susceptible of proo f , from much observation, than that, in 
ninety-nine eases out of every hundred, where a patient has a 
lingering, chronic disease, the fault is to be found in the blood- 
making organs, and principally the Stomach; for it is the office of 
the blood to repair waste and damage, and in the same proportion 
as the digestion is healthy, and the blood rich and nutritious, will 
it accomplish its object. As before stated, not only do Post-Mor- 
tem examinations prove this theory correct, but treatment also; 
and it is surprising to see, even in Consumption, how rapidly many 
recover, soon gaining flesh and strength, the cough subsiding, the 
chills and night-sweats diminishing, and the sunken eye and pallid 
cheek, soon giving way to the rosy appearance of health. Why 
is it that every second or third female we meet in society has a 
lack-lustre countenance, a discolored skin, is dyspeptic, has more 
or less of Female Diseases, gets short of breath on exertion, has 
palpitation, cold feet, &c. Now, they are all treated, more or less 
of the time, by the best Physicians practicing the old theory — 
why don't they get well? Why are they always sick? The an- 
swer is plain — the old theory is false, therefore the treatment is a 
failure. 

When Physicians once learn to treat these troubles upon correct 
principles, and with the right kind of medicine— then, and then 
only, will Chronic Disease, the bane of civilized life, and the dis- 
grace of the medical profession, be almost entirely banished from 
the land. 



jyfJblXCUJOT CAS MS' 

In looking over my notes of Difficult Cases, most of which were taken 
while connected with the Ko.*pUn'. the-^ollbwiiMj ttia^ he of interest to 
the reader, if an in valid : 

CASE [. 

Mrs. -E., aged 41, came under my cafe December 3d, 1868, an invalid, 
for 14 years. Symptoms— Great debility and exceedingly nervous, diz- 
ziness, headache, poor memory,. cold feet, much flatulence, water-brash, 
pain in side,;shoulder, breast and back, palpitation, tenderness at the pit 
of the stomach, sl^in rusty and spotted, catarrh, irritable throal, bowels 
constipated and urine scanty and high colored- States that nearly every 
kind of food disagrees with and distresses her stomach. Has been "treated 
for Liver Complaint, Catarrh, Nervousness, Neuralgia, Debility, etc., etc., 
for years, without any permanent benefit. I prescribed medicine to 
soot-Ma, heal and give tone to the stomach and digestive organs, and food 
thai would give the greatest amount rf nutrition and strength and most 
easy of digestion. January 1st— Bowels regular, skin getting clear, no 
flatulence and very little tenderness, some neuralgic pain, but no palpita- 
tion or nervousness, urine more regular, head clear, feet easier kept warm, 
and no headache, gained some strength. Increased amount of food, both 
in quantity and variety,- to eat -what is mast desirable, provided it pro- 
duces no uneasiness or distress. Increased also the tonic power of the 
medicines, carefully adapting them to the wants of the stomach, in re- 
ference to the absence of certain gastric juices required. February 2d 

Bowels and urine regular; no disziness, neuralgia or headache, skin clear 
and natural, no flatulence or w.ater brash, feet warm, catarrh greatly 
improved and fast gaining strength. Con Treat. March 1st — Patient 
discharged cured. Remarks.— r f\its patient rapidly recovered. Why ? 
Because medicino was prescribed for her disease instead of her symptoms 
Her stomach was the diseased organ, as proved by its tenderneis and 
distress after eating ; it bejng diseased, therefore could not digest her 
foodj heneo putrefaction, and consequently flatulence (gas ever being the 
result of putrefaction). Blood thus manufactured could not otherwise 
than bo. vitiated, irritating and poisonous, and as it circulated througli 
the system twice a minute, instead of giving strength, vigor and vitality 
to every part, as healthy blood does, it absolutely poisoned her whole 
system. Hence her dizziness, poor memory, headache, palpitation, de- 
bility, cold feet, yellow skin, ncrvousne??, neuralgia and catarrh, etc., 
etc. She took medicine that soothe 1 and healed the stomach and regu- 
lated the digestive fluids, Harsh medicines, cathartics, etc., would only 
have made a bad matter worse. A stomach that can't bear food cannot, 
as a rule, bear phytic. A healthy stomach and bowels always keep reg- 
ular. Digestion in a liealth^ stomach is rapid, complete and easy; if 
diseased, it is slow, ere a in fid. 

Miss S., aged 19, began treatment Juno 2d, 1860. Symptoms— Com- 
plexion pale and slightly sallow, skin dry and harsh, much emaciation, 
is easy to take cold, has cough, purulent expectoration, shortness of 
breath, fever in the evening and palpitation, formorly had cold feet, but 
latterly they burn at nigfct; menstruation formerly very painful, but had 
of late entirely ceased; pulse 120; some tenderness in the stomach, con- 
stipation, sour eructations; gas, etc., etc, Physical examination of the 
chest showed tuberculous deposition in superior portion left lung. Had 
been treated over two years for Liver Complaint, Amenorhea (want of 



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menstruation), Consumption, etc., eie. Ordered medicine to soothe and 
heal the stomach, improve digestion, and tone tho digestive organs and. 
system generally, with pancreatic emulsion, which powerfully assists tho 
digestion of fats, that she might gain flesh and strengh rapidly. To 
take plenty of air and exercise out of doors, stopping short of "fatigue : a 
flannel jacket entirely covering the chest, thickly lined with cotton, to be 
worn constantly, thus securing a prompt and constant action to the sur- 
face, to relieve the lungs, and quiet the cough. July 1st— Reports much 
improvement in digestion, and some in strength, otherways little change. 
Gon Treat. August 1st— Better in every respect, except strength, which 
she attributes to a slight attack of Dysentery, which weakened her. Con 
Treat. Sept. 1st — Stomach quite healthy, and now digests all kinds of 
food, getting strong, has gained 14 lbs. in weight, unwell two days and 
free from pain,* scarcely any cough, and but little expectoration; bowels 
regular and a healthy hue of the skin. Con. Treat. Oct. 2d— Patient 
reports rapid improvement, has become regular in every respect, and en 
tirely free from pain s Has gained 26 pounds since first taking medicine; 
stomach will now digest even warm bread and fat pork; skin clear, and 
she feels as well a3 ever, except not so strong. Ordered to wear the chest 
protector during the winter; stop all medicine, and eat anything desira- 
ble, net too hard of digestion. Remarks — This patient had bad dige? 
tion for years, and was evidently in the second stage of Consumption, 
the correct pathology of which, is that in certain forms of indigestion, 
the blood corpuscles, (that in health are oval), becomes shriveled and 
agglutenated together, and thus lodge in the lung tissue, producing tu- 
bercles and Consumption. The lungs are organs of great vascularity, 
having not only one set of blood vessels In common with all other part: 
of the system constantly carrying blood to it for the repair of waste and 
damage, but also another set of great magnitude, conveying there every 
few minutes, all the blood of the human system, for the purpose of re 
eeiving oxygen, and carrying off Carbonic acid gas. Thus it is easily 
seen why the lungs are the favorite scat of tubercle, Therefore by first 
making the stomach digestion and blood healthy, not only no more tuber- 
cles were deposited there, but what were there were slowly absorbed. Kx>w 
any one of ordinary intelligence can readily understand how under the 
old fashioned treatment of nauseants, Cough medicines and alternatives, 
that invariably destroy the appetite, weakens the patient and injure? 
digestion, this patient's death at no distant day, would eftevitably have 
been the result. 

FMOM dm. hag-ax, 

Op St. Paul, Minn., Giladi [aTe op Steeling Medical College, Columbus, Obio, a 
the College op Physicians and Surgeons, New York, late SuegfonU, S. Army. 

St. Paul, December 4th, 1S6S. 
Dr. Sanderson— Dear Sir: Sinco the winter of 180G, when with 3?ou in New York. 
I have been prescribing for chronic diseases according to your plan of treatment, and 
my success exceeds my most sanguine expectations. If you remember I had lost all 
faith in any euro for chronic diseases', for in many years' practice previous to that 
time, cannot conscientiously say I had ever satisfactorily cured a .single case. I fir;-.! 
now little trouble in curing its mo^l obstinate forms. In fact, as sooiTas.the stomach, 
digestion and blood are made healthy, the system, without farther assistance, al 
most invariably cures itself. Female diseases, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Asthma, Chorea, 
Scrofula, Chronio Rheumatism, Deafness, Chronic Sore Eyes, Nervous Debility, Pal- 
pitation, etc., etc., disappear whenever the blood is made healthy. Even Consump- 
tion, except in its last stage, rapidly recovers, and I find, on referring to my notes, a 
number of recoveries where the patients had chills, hectic fever, night-sweats, emacia- 
tion, with much purulent, and occasionally even bloody expectoration. It is with 
pleasure that I inform you that many of my patients, as well as myself, owe their 
lives to your skill and successful plan of -treatment. 

M. HAGAN, H. D., St Paul, Minn. 



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CWME OF A SEVERE CASE 

Of Diseased Stomach of Long Standing?, Complicated with Epileptic Fits. Case of 

Judge Boggs, of Cadiz, Ohio. 

This certifies that I consulted Dr. Sanderson in 1866: I had Dyspepsia in its worst 
form for many years. No kind of food agreed with my stomach. Had taken medicine 
from many prominent physicians without any relief whatever. Frequently had 
spasms, instantly tailing down, entirely insensible, wherever I happened to be, and 
my case had for many years been considered hopeless by my physicians as well as 
friends. On consultation with Dr. Sanderson, he stated that all my troubles origina- 
ated from a diseased stomach, and consequently faulty digestion and vitiated blood, 
poisoning my whole system; that with the cure of my stomach and digestion, I would 
again become healthy. I took his medicine and soon began to gain, and in two or 
three months far exceeded all expectation. I am now as helathy as healthy as I ever 
was (excepting age), can eat and digest all kinds of food, and have not had a spasm 
for over two years. I regard Dr. Sanderson as a man of truth, honor and integrity, 
and second to none in his profession. WM. BOGGS, Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio . 

SUCCESSFUL MEMOVAJO 
Of an Ovarian Tumor, one of the most Difficult as well as Dangerous Operations 

Known in Surgery. 

This certifies that in the year 1860, an Ovarian Tumor began growing in my right 
side, which increased slowly and constantly, until its size became so great that life 
was a burden to me, and my physicians and friends gave me up to die. I was operated 
on by Dr. Charles B. Sanderson in 1868, who successfully removed the Tumor, and at 
this time, three months from its removal, am enjoying a good degree of health. I 
give this certificate, hoping other lives may be saved as mine has been. 

MARY GOULD, Gould's Station, Jefferson County, Ohio. 

The following is taken from the Steubenville (O.) Ga- 
zette, of September 14, 1866 : 

"We have been acquainted with Dr. Sanderson for a number of years, and his suc- 
cess in the treatment of Chronic and Surgical diseases, seema unparalled in the annals 
of medical science. 

He is constantly performing the most difficult operations known to surgery, 
and yet for five years, not a case has terminated fatally. Among which are W. Van 
Horn of Oarrolton, both legs drawn double for 33 years, tendons divided and limbs 
straightened. Isaac Barger, Cadiz, diseased leg for many years, limb amputated and 
quick recovery. A son of R. Freshwater, near Steubenville, Cancer of the eye covering 
the face, eye and tumor removed, and a rapid recovery, also a Mrs. Kelly, of Bellair, 
blind for two years from Cataract, crystaline lens removed and sight restored, 

We have yet to mention two of the most daring and successful cases on record. 
Mr. Long, near Bloomfield, diseased bones of Pelvis, long since pronounced incurable; 
Dr. S., assisted by Dr. Wortman, of Cadiz, made an incision of five inches in depth, 
and removed a portion Of the internal surface of the Sacrum and Ileum. 

But what seems more surprising than all others, is the case of A. Swihart, of New 
Philadelphia, necrosis of the cranium of years standing, whose case had been pro- 
nounced surely and speedily fatal by his attending physicians, and a majority of Sur- 
geons in consultation decided that instant death would take place from an operation. 
Dr. S., at his request, it being his only chance for life, removed a large portion of the 
skull bone on the upper and right side of his head, leaving the Dura Matra and Brain 
exposed, a large amount of matter was discharged, and a rapid recovery took place. 
Comment Is unnecessary. 

These and many other cases entitles Dr. Sanderson to rank among the ablest and 
most skillful Surgeons of Europe or America. 

FILES. 
There is scarcely a disease known that produces as much suffer- 
ing as Piles, and few that can be as speedily cured. To all suffer- 
ing from this disagreeable complaint we guarantee immediate and 
permanent relief. 

DEAFNESS. 

We are often consulted by those suffering from Deafness, and 
and say here for the benefit of all that many cases rapidly recover 
whilst others are entirely beyond the control of any vet known 
plans of treatment. 



I From the Pittsburgh Dhpaich of November o, 186&] 

XMPQllTA&T SmtaiCAL OPERATION. 

A few days since, a Mrs. Campbell from Blairsville, Pa. /came to this 
city, blind from Cataract, Having been blind for four year. By invita- 
tion vrc witnessed the operation at the residence of Mrs. Carlisle, at 22S 
North avenue, Allegheny City. After being placed in proper position irt 
a recking chair, her eye-lids being held open by an assistant, the operat- 
ing surgeons, Drs. Sanderson and Barbour, of Allegheny, made an incis- 
ion through the front part of the eyeball, and passing an instrument, 
through the pupil, removed entire and without injury to the eye, the 
opaque crystalline lens that caused the blindness. Mrs. C. immediately 
looked up and smilingly remarked, "I can see now." She did not seem 
to suffer "in the least from the operation; made a rapid recovery, and was 
soon able to return home with perfect sight in the eye operated on. When 
we take into consideration that the part taken out was larger than an 
ordinary cherry stone, and that it is taken out of the back part of the 
front third of the eyeball, the operation and its result seem almost a mi- 
racle. Drs. S. and B. informed us 'that they rarely failed by that opera- 
tion to give the patient perfect sight, although it is the most difficult 
operation known in surgery, and one that few surgeons ever undertake. 






s It is ever best 16 consult a Physiciau personally^for treat- 
ment, once at least, yet for the benefit of those unable to come, I 
will forward by express such medicines as I think their cases re- 
quire, with full directions, on receipt of their address, a reasonable 
fee, and an answer to the following questions : 

What is your age, and how rdng sick ? 

Have you cold feet, dizziness, headache, or a poor memory ? 

Have you pains in the shoulder, side, breast or back ? 

Is your skin yellow, rusty, or spotted ? 

Hare you a bad taste in the mouth in the morn wig ' 

Have you much gas in the stomach~or bowels ? 
; Have you tenderness at the pit of the stomach ? 

Have you heart-burn or water-brash ? 

Are you nervous, debilitated, or ha^ve palpitation ? 

Are your bowels costive, too loose, regular or irregular ? 

Do you pass slime from the bowels when loose ? 

Is your urine high colored, or pale, profuse, or scanty ? 

Do you ciave sour drinks, and do they agree with the stomach? 

Do youleel w r orse in w r ef weather or before a storm ? 

Do you have chills, night sweats, hectic fever, cough or vomit 
up blood? 

Have you catarrh, irritation of the lungs, throat or cough ? 

Does liquor set well on the stomach ? 

Those sending for medicine should answer all the above ques- 
tions; al^o, state all other symptoms. 

All letters of inquiry must contain a P. O.^Stamp and address in 
full. Direct— 

CHAS. B. SANDERSON, M. D., 
Office, Na. 59 Diamond, 
Allegheny City, Pa. 



DR. SANDERSON 




tural Eye. 

TZZ¥ZJVL0^7&!& DBPOKMITIi- 

Such as Hare lap, Crooked Limb-'., Club Feet, and Operates foT 
Ovarian Tumor, Lithotomy and Stricture, Diseased Rones and 
Joints, and Transplants Ixiteguiaent from one part to another. 

Hip Joint .Disease successfully treated, as practiced by the cele- 
brated Prof. Sayrb, of Bellvue Hospital, Medical College ; N. Y., 
and usually without confinement to the patient, 

* GkAeTKO ENTSRITIS, 

Commonly called Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, &c; attended with 
cold feet, dizziness., headache, loss of memory, nervousness, debil- 
ity, palpitation, pain in side, breast and shoulder, catarrh, irrita- 
ble throat and lungs, irregular bowels and urine, and a rusty, 
spotted or faded skin, is easily cured and with little expense. 

^ElvC^X-K DISEASES, 

In ail their various forms, treated with entire success by curing 
the pathological condition and its cause, whieli is generally found 
to exist principally in the stomach and blood-making organs, 

BEMEMEBB 

Thai Dr. Baaderson has had twenty years experience iri ihe treat- 
ment of Chronic and Surgical Diseases, six years of which time 
has been spent in the Hospitals of ISTew York City, a part of the 
time acting in the capacity of Senior Surgeon to Kings Co. Hos- 
pital, is a graduate of t&ree of the first regular Medical College? 
of the Unite.! Sts ! graduate of the N, y. Opthalmio 

School of Medicine and Surgery, i: endorsed by the laic Valentine 
Molt, Professors Parker, Clark, Dalton and the firs*- Surgeons and 
Physicians of t£e United States* Vr, S, will visit difficult oases 
in consultation' with other Physicians of good standing. 

CHARGES REASONABLE, CONSULTATION FREE, 
Office, J\o- 59 "Diamond \ 

ALLEGHENY; Pa 
t 
Accessible by Sir-. from all parts ol Allegheny 

and Pittsburgh. 



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